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<blockquote data-quote="Redrobes" data-source="post: 3924266" data-attributes="member: 40793"><p>I have been running XP x64 for about a year to year and a half now and I have had very little driver issues. Firstly I had the first nVidia beta x64 driver and it worked just fine. I have a newer one now but basically I have had no issues whatsoever with them.</p><p></p><p>My newer Canon printer works very well too though my ancient Epson laser printer does not have one. Newer versions from the same company are x64 tho. All newer HP ones are x64. I have a Canon scanner which does not have a driver the last time I looked but I rarely use it so its hooked up to an old machine. Again HP scanners generally are tho. I'm not a gamer on the PC so I use on mobo sound which has been fine. I have heard of some reports of dodgy drivers for some cards but x64 has been around for a long while now.</p><p></p><p>The newer driver development system in place from the start of this year unifies all the driver development from 2K to Vista64 though if you have been developing with an older framework then I guess you might stick with it. The point is that newer drivers for Vista mean that you get all the old ones for free if the dev can get access to all the variants to test on.</p><p></p><p>So far to date this OS has crashed exactly 0 times. I find that you don't get root kits and viruses often due to the 64 bit kernel. The downside to that is stuff like Zone Alarm haven't got an x64 variant and the odd stuff like root kit revealer is 32 bit only. Still, a lot of stuff is x64 now including all the other sys internals tools. I use image magick quite a bit which has an x64 variant now. I noted the other day that 7Zip was x64 capable and that it uses multi-threading too. Its all going in the right direction. ViewingDale and all my tools have also had native x64 variants for about a year now.</p><p></p><p>4Gb is quite a lot but if you are going nuts with something then don't rely on paging out to the HDD any more. Paging a gig takes forever. So fit the 8Gb if you need that much RAM.</p><p></p><p>If your going SLI then the Asus P5N32-E SLI is supposed to be a doozy. You can get 3x8800 GTX's onto that beast - apparently.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Redrobes, post: 3924266, member: 40793"] I have been running XP x64 for about a year to year and a half now and I have had very little driver issues. Firstly I had the first nVidia beta x64 driver and it worked just fine. I have a newer one now but basically I have had no issues whatsoever with them. My newer Canon printer works very well too though my ancient Epson laser printer does not have one. Newer versions from the same company are x64 tho. All newer HP ones are x64. I have a Canon scanner which does not have a driver the last time I looked but I rarely use it so its hooked up to an old machine. Again HP scanners generally are tho. I'm not a gamer on the PC so I use on mobo sound which has been fine. I have heard of some reports of dodgy drivers for some cards but x64 has been around for a long while now. The newer driver development system in place from the start of this year unifies all the driver development from 2K to Vista64 though if you have been developing with an older framework then I guess you might stick with it. The point is that newer drivers for Vista mean that you get all the old ones for free if the dev can get access to all the variants to test on. So far to date this OS has crashed exactly 0 times. I find that you don't get root kits and viruses often due to the 64 bit kernel. The downside to that is stuff like Zone Alarm haven't got an x64 variant and the odd stuff like root kit revealer is 32 bit only. Still, a lot of stuff is x64 now including all the other sys internals tools. I use image magick quite a bit which has an x64 variant now. I noted the other day that 7Zip was x64 capable and that it uses multi-threading too. Its all going in the right direction. ViewingDale and all my tools have also had native x64 variants for about a year now. 4Gb is quite a lot but if you are going nuts with something then don't rely on paging out to the HDD any more. Paging a gig takes forever. So fit the 8Gb if you need that much RAM. If your going SLI then the Asus P5N32-E SLI is supposed to be a doozy. You can get 3x8800 GTX's onto that beast - apparently. [/QUOTE]
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